“ | One does not become a god of one's own accord. However, the day when this new race of humanity will clamor to anoint me as such is not far away. | „ |
~ Emperor boasting about how he is worshipped. |
“ | You judge me. You judge us. The things that we have done… but people say… that I'm crazy, but when you wake up in the morning you look at the same news that I do. Do your eyes not fill with horror? This is the world?! This? This is the world we have built for our children? Communities being torn apart. Walls being erected. Because leaders are too impotent to act. Bullies are too addled to lead righteously. I did not ask for this. I was chosen. | „ |
~ Joseph Seed |
Dark Messiahs are held as Gods, Messiahs and/or similar icons by supporters. Unlike God Wannabes, not all Dark Messiahs seek worship and their followers often do so willingly rather than by force. People are willing to lay their lives down to protect and/or serve the Dark Messiah.
Often they will rise in power and may be prophesied to rule the world, destroy the world or save their own culture, race, faction or people and doom everyone else, thus acting as a reverse of the traditional role of a "Savior". They differ from Dark Lords in the sense that "messiah" literally means "savior" or "liberator" by their followers; Lords or Ladies do not need to seek out the purpose of saving and/or protecting subordinates.
Villains openly worshipped and/or revered by large groups of followers and take on the role of amoral saviors and liberators (at least to said followers) belong here. This includes Fanatics who commit atrocities in the name of God(s) and/or religions by presenting themselves as spokespersons or guardians of faith albeit with twisted views of what religions and subsequently an ideal world should be.
All items (1891)
- Don Paragon
- Dong Bai
- Dong Zhuo (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
- Donquixote Doflamingo
- Dormammu (2010 Marvel Animated Universe)
- Dormammu (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Dormammu (Marvel)
- Dormammu (Spider-Man: The Animated Series)
- Dorothea Grecht
- Doukoku Chimatsuri
- Dr. Eggman (Archie Comics)
- Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik
- Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Sonic the Comic)
- Dr. James Sheridan
- Dr. Robotnik (Archie Comics)
- Dr. Weil
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- Dracula (Castlevania)
- Dracula (Lords of Shadow)
- Dracula (Marvel)
- Dracula (Netflix's Castlevania)
- Dracula (Penny Dreadful)
- Dracula (The Batman)
- Dragon Eye
- Dragon God (DC)
- Dragonborn
- Dragonlord
- Draias
- Drake (Blade)
- Dreadpool
- Dream Demons
- Druaga
- Du Jue
- Duchess Rowena
- Dukat
- Duke (The King of Fighters)
- Duma (Fire Emblem)
- Dune
- Dutch van der Linde
- Dweller in the Gulf
- Earl Gundy
- Earth-Man
- Ebis High Hand
- Eblis
- Edmund Rockwell
- Eggman Nega
- Ego (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Ego (What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?)
- Eh Tar
- Ehit
- Ehrthold
- Eight Great Apostles
- El Rey
- El Tío
- Elder God (Legacy of Kain)
- Elektra Natchios (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Elexis Sinclaire
- Eli Miller
- Elias (Diablo)
- Elijah Kamski
- Elijah Madnar
- Elizabeth Bathory (Dracula the Undead)
- Elizabeth Báthory (Bathory)
- Elletear Lou Nebulis IX
- Elpizo
- Elsa Maria
- Elysium
- Emperor (Cyborg 009)
- Emperor Belos
- Emperor Daibazaal
- Emperor Hirohito (South Park)
- Emperor Ing
- Emperor Kans
- Emperor Leo
- Emperor Madoras
- Emperor of Darkest Yin
- Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)
- Emperor Sutoku
- Emperor Tachyon
- Emperor Tathagata Killer
- Emperor Yodon
- Emperor Zu Zambajil (Voltes V)
- Emperor's Coven
- Empress Juuza
- Empress Siren
- ENeMeE
- Enrico Pucci
- Enter
- Entity (SCP-5000)
- Enver Gortash
- Enzukai
- Ephemural
- Equinox (DC)
- Eramis, Kell of Darkness
- Erazor Djinn
- Eredin
- Eren Yeager
- Erik Killmonger (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Erik Visser
- Erskine Ravel
- Erzsebet Báthory (Netflix's Castlevania)
- Eternal Empire
- Eto Yoshimura
- Eugene Black
- Evangelist
- Eve (Hercules and Xena)
- Eve (Parasite Eve)
- Evil Ash (Evil Dead)
- Evil Entity
- Evil Puss
- Evil Will
- Evils of Humanity
- Faceless Ones
- Fallen Hana
- Fandaniel
- Fang La
- Fang Yuan
- Farley Flavors
- Farrah
- Farrakh
- Fatalis
- FATE
- Father (Codename: Kids Next Door)
- Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Father (V/H/S/2)
- Father Cornello
- Father Dagon
- Father Mathias
- Fecto Elfilis
- Female Changeling
- Fenrir (Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts)
- Fiamma of the Right
- Five Dragon Gods
- Flame (Marvel's Spider-Man)
- Flowey
- Foamy the Squirrel
- Fog Mother
- Forever King
- Fortinbras
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Good Omens)
- Frank Fontaine
- Frieza (Dragon Ball)
- Fugil Arcadia
- Fukubei Hattori
- Fuscus
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Fzoul Chembryl
- Fëanor
- Führer Taboo
- Gabriel (Mission: Impossible)
- Gabriel Yulaw
- Galactic Empress Meadow
- Galactus (Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes)
- Galactus (Marvel)
- Galakrond (Hearthstone)
- Galatea (Bubblegum Crisis)
- Galeem
- Ganon (Shadow Era)
- Ganondorf (Era of the Wilds)
- Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
- Ganondorf (Twilight Princess manga)
- Gargaroth
- Garokk
- Garraka
- Gary Miller
- Gatanozoa
- Gelorum
- General Chrome
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- General Scales
- General Shao
- General Shepherd (original)
- Generalissimo
- Generalissimo of Badan
- Gengo
- Genis-Vell
- George Woodman
- Gerard Bieri
- Gerard Bonneville
- Ghastly King
- Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka
- Ghroth
- Giff
- Gihren Zabi
- Gilbert Durandal
- Gill (Street Fighter)
- Giratina
- Giygas (EarthBound)
- Glaaki
- God (Devilman)
- God (One-Punch Man)
- God (Preacher)
- God (Silent Hill)
- God (Star Trek)
- God (Unicorn Wars)
- God Emperor Leto Atreides
- God Hand
- God of Death (Heroes)
- God of Fear and Hunger
- God Of Roadkill